Giovan Battista Filosa | Girls On The Rocks Oil Painting On Panel.

Girls on the rocks gazing at a sea horizon with boats returning from fishing; part of the iconographic repertoire of the well-known Stabiese painter, here in a variant where the female figures not only watch in expectation but also call out to the approaching fishermen. The painting, oil on panel, bears the signature on the front lower right-hand side
Measurements panel 59x43 cm ca

Giovan Battista Filosa
by Giuseppe Zingone
Among the sons of Castellammare of whom we have little memory today, there is undoubtedly Giovan Battista Filosa, (a pupil of Morelli, according to Domenico Maggiore) a painter of superior level, of international fame, among the great Stabiesi and certainly close to our other fellow citizen Enrico Gaeta.
Birth G. Battista Filosa,

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